Concept Art Competition WIP Thread

I'm not sure I understand the voting process.

For example, voting on your own submission every day seems unethical, yet clearly there are going to be individuals doing that.

Not to mention, one of my friends just voted for me, and said "Wow I can vote every 24 hours? I'm going to keep voting for yours until voting closes" But I had to ask him not to otherwise I might get disqualified.

Could we get more clarification on the rules here?

It seems to be buggy for mine... Are some of the thumbnails supposed to look 10px high? Also why is it possible to vote again after 24 hours?

Hey guys...i emailed the team asking for a more defined set of rules.....as soon as they get back to me i'll inform you of their response Good luck all, the entries are great!!!!!!

That's rather stupid in fact. IP limited voting just calls for misuse. Why not vote by member? Hence you can place like N votes and that's it, period. No misuse possible. Furthermore allowing voting for yourself is *meh* too. Those who are fair don't vote for themselves and all others do. Guess who is the looser in this game then . Also voting multiple times is crap too. Just calls for misuse again. What about variety? Over-voting one entry is like saying the world exists only of black and white.

But it's not the fault of INtense! and their team in that case it looks like as the rules seem to not origin from them.

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Hmmm, so if I keep resetting my router so I keep getting new IP addresses, I get many votes? Plus I get one from work, one from home, and could even get several from my neighbours as well if I was feeling cheeky enough to exploit their poor wireless security. I can't be arsed, but if I cared enough I could rack up tens, if not hundreds, of votes a day. Aren't IP-based ID checks great!

Why not tie votes to Moddb users? MOTY voting uses that, and has been successful in filtering dummy accounts created purely to pad the vote. You have a better system that's already been used, and you aren't using it

I've emailed INtense, apparently neither he nor ModDB built the voting system, just as Spector said above, so it's kinda sorta out of their hands beyond trying to fix polish issues now.

I had to vote for the 'War on the Water' concept with the cartoon-esque vehicles over ice. It's so suitably bonkers it's a great concept piece, even if it isn't the best piece of artwork.

Edit: Oops. That's what I get for flicking back a page.

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i think if they see that one image has 1000 votes and all the others only have 50 each then they might think something is up, eaither that or everyone has similar tastes/

Hey I don't know if anyone is interested but I found this the other day

Events.cgsociety.org

Anyway it looks a little bit different! No monsters or characters..sounds pretty cool! I think it's more aimed at the 3D artists...but interesting none the less

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heh yeah. Those are for pros.

i didn't vote. coz if i did, I'm not ashamed to admit I'd totally vote for my own entry. LOL. But I did ask my friends to vote for me. >.> That's alright, right?! I wish they'd have made a modDB member based voting system tho... but... nothing we can do about that. So live with it!

Everybody play fair! and Good luck!

hm... LOL. there are only about 2 ISP's, I think that cater nationwide to the Philippines. I hope I don't run into problems with that.

but yeah, checking out the votes themselves is good. I wonder if you can pinpoint the actual geographical location of the IP? that would also help, maybe.

hmm.

this means we can vote for one artpiece a day, for as many artpieces as we want, provided that they are different each day?

e.g. i voted for A today,

a)if i voted for A tomorrow, the two votes would still count as 1 vote for A
b)if i voted for B tomorrow, both artpieces A and B would now have 1 vote from me each?

Mr_Cyberpunk wrote:dude, CGSociety.. Nvidia Quadros == OWNED. Seriously I bet every industry guy on the planet would be going for that. ModDB is much easier

HA ha well yes there is that...but hey i've seen some industry standard work in this competition It's always worth a go, after all if you come up with an idea thats really interesting...often that will win over a skill based piece:) It seems like a really interesting competition though. I like that they say no games characters, no fantasy creatures, no kind of character design at all....should be really interesting to see the results! Some of the entries look pretty cool, from the wip threads!....ha ha how many times can i say interesting in a post? ee hee

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hm yes. the results would be really awesome. especially since its CGS. I remember one of our concept artists painting that sort of scenes a year ago. Abstract environments that makes no sense but are clearly scenes of some sort. I'll try to nag him to join. Hmmm...no... I'll tell ALL our concept artists.

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